In this song, Hawkins tells the few remaining humans a legend about a girl who happens upon a village overrun with snakes, and is begged by the villagers to save them. The parts of the villagers are sung by their cobrafied friends.

Q: Why is Hawkins in the basement? Maybe he is getting nostalgic? [“What are you doing here?” “Taking one last walk etc.”] KATIE: Is Hawkins in the basement? I’ve always thought that scene happened outside on the curb or something, but you’d be shocked as how often I’m wrong about …

Q: Here is something several of us noticed about Act 2: The cobras almost seem to plateau on their level of scariness. We know they aren’t supposed to be angry or straight-up evil all the time or anything, but there are definite times when they’re deliberately malicious, like the scene …